SINGING ENGLISH - A must-have collection of fun new songs and chants for practising vocabulary and phrases when learning English. Ideal for those learning English as an additional or second language in the UK and anyone learning English abroad. These catchy songs and chants help pupils memorise word[...]

An English-language rendering of the world's oldest epic poem seeks to convey the work's literary richness and follows the journey of conquest and self-discovery by the heroic king of Uruk, in an edition complemented by an introduction that places the story in its historical, spiritual, and cultural[...]

Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4. "The Trial of Qwerty" - The 'Qwerty' keyboard faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct the English language. But who was Mr Qwerty? "He Said, She Said" - Do men and women really say[...]

Deeply funny, moving, idiosyncratic and unforgettable, Pigeon English introduces a major new literary talent[...]

Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn o[...]

The entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of "1000 Years of Annoying the French" and "A Year in the Merde."
Edward VII was an English King made in France.
The 'black sheep' son of Victoria and Albert, he first fell in love with France as a [...]

Mercenaries were a significant factor in many of the wars of the Classical world, being employed in large numbers by many states. By far the most famous were Xenophon's 'Ten Thousand', who had to cut their way out of the Persian Empire after the death of their employer and such Greek infantry were f[...]